2012 will be the GOP's election to repeal health reform

[YewNork]

The GOP knows that if they want to repeal health reform they must win both houses of Congress and the White House, so that will be their goal in 2012.

[Ozymanithrax]

1. So oponents of health care reform here now have candidates they can vote for.

And the GOP can by ads here to attract them.

[YewNork]

3. And after the opponents here vote for those Republican candidates

And the current health reform law gets repealed, those candidates will tell the Democrats who voted for them "Thanks, now go away, leftie."

[Ozymanithrax]

4. Pretty much n/t

[bullimiami]

2. My gut feeling is that is a losing strategy.

It was one thing to lambast and demonize health reform before it was in effect.

I cannot see many people wanting to give back whatever benefits they have gotten under it.

[Ozymanithrax]

5. Their people think Social Security isn't a government program.

The right will convince their people. It will depend on which side gets to the polls in the best numbers.

Personally, I think Obama will probalby win,but the Senate will be lost, unless there is a groundswell that will improve Obama's coattails.

[BlueDog22]

6. Repealing Heathcare 2012

Yeah, but they can only lose seats in the house because in large swings the party that wins takes seats they can't hold in the long term. Also there isn't a single Republican right now that can take Obama, and the seats that are going up in the Senate are mostly Democratic most of the time. They might win two (Virgina and Missouri) but Scott Brown will probably lose his seat. That means they have a real chance of picking up only one seat. This will give the Democrats 52 seats in the senate and the majority.

In the house they have over 30 at risk seats vs. the Democrats have like 10, plus with two Republicans having to resign this year (Rivera is going down in flames) independents are likely to see the Republicans as corrupt.